I got so many ideas for Amiga 500 effects that I just have to go home and code while watching this. Not only is this full of great effects, they are also utilized really well. Awesomeness all the way through.

I am seriously impressed with this. Wow. Amazing artwork, tight code, and some really nice design to put it all together. Great music considering the chip you were working with (but a SID track with some more bass would have been killer!)

To be honest, I downloaded this for the logo in the screenshot - which I thought looked pretty damn cool. Then it *scrolled*...

Beautiful, excellent gfx work, lovely transitions from scene to scene, weird and wonderful new effects. My all-time favorite Plus4 at least, and I can see myself watching this hundreds of times in the future. Thanks <3

Awesome, massive!!!
Graphics and Transitions are 100%
There are also a lot of cool effects (even though few of them are too blocky to recognize, also unreadable scrolltext, greetings)
You almost got me there with utub

The needless and tired *MIIGA wankery and some other possible nitpicking aside, this is a great 8-bit platform demo with tones of effects and some great graphics. It almost feels like an Offence demo on a different platform. Some more polish and better sync and it'd be even better. :)

Guys, it's not a C16 demo, it's for Plus/4.
Overally this demo set's the bar for all 8bit demos, so awesome fresh and fast effects, great graphics, linking and overall design and a top notch TED music.
Wow, just wow, what a demo. Motivates me to start working on 8bit stuff again.

Seeing where Plus4 demos initially came from - trying to do what others did on the C64, just with worse music and no sprites - the Plus4 scene has managed to evolve their demos into something individual, tailored exactly to the strengths of the Plus4 and carefully avoiding all its weaknesses.

And this is, without a doubt, the masterpiece, that will be incredibly hard if not impossible to top.

Now that's oldschool with style! Not just a rehash of old effects, but also lots of new, very innovative ideas. Like Blueberry, I got very inspired by some of them! And I cannot begin to imagine just how much work went into this - outstanding!

One thing stands out like a sore thumb to me, though: Those stupid Amiga references, which didn't fit in at all and look like they were simply included to get cheers from the audience. This demo wouldn't have needed to pull off such cheap stunts to fish for votes.

I'll give you a thumb when I manage to watch this in its entirety, tried twice and it didn't engage me. The extremely mundane music doesn't help, but I know TED is a bitch and the track(s) aren't bad considering it. Massive props for the effects, design and overall effort.

Hmm... something must be wrong with me, course I was not at all drawn to this. Music was empty and flat, gfx was cool and there is a lot of nice stuff and attention details, which is really awesome. BUT, somehow I managed to feel all bored and uninspired all the way through?!?!

But I reckon the design and overall awesomeness of this with a big fat thumb!

Calexico: TED sound capabilities are not "that bad" (also, this song isn't bad - it's just long and not everybody can handle 16 minutes of 2 channels, but the C=16 / Plus4 scene consequently refuses to develop and release contemporary real music tracker for their own platform or even admit that all the existing music software is pile of crap and typing music in assembler is a shameful stone age.

Tonnes of great gfx and effects in there and an interesting theme/story keeping it all together. Enough content for two demos.. and I think that splitting it up like that would have made it even better

brutal demo. just wow. the whole thing is just teeming with cool effect ideas and optimized graphics. perhaps my most loved 8 bit demo so far. the music isn't everything, but what can you expect from a 2 channel square wave chip..

Yeah, it rocks. Yeah it kicks ass. You guys have brought an epic demo, especially on such hardware. I admire your work, sincerely.

However, 16 minutes?! Scroll/sine texts / dejavu effects going on forever? Like plenty of people mentionned it at the party place, you should have split up the release into three releases (5 minutes long is quite enough). The infinite time demo and boring effects killed the whole thing to me :(

2014's 8-bit summer blockbuster! :)
Super impressive design/transitions and graphics (can't imagine how much work went into those), a lot of original effects that sometimes feel more 16-bit than 8-bit and even a touch of humour. Music isn't as impressive but I guess that's the best you can hope for with those hardware specs.

Yes, it got a bit long in the end: we just wanted to fill both sides of the disc which resulted in many many parts. If that´s too long for you – fine.

@Mermaid: Thanks. I completely understand you point. Our idea was to have something in between "theme" and „story“. For a good story demo you need a good story – which we obviously didn´t had :-). So we thought some breaks would lighten up the whole thing.

About the „Amiga w**kery“ :-) OK , a bit too obvious crowd pleasing. My point was more like: it matters what you do and not so much on which machine or media. Of course: its harder to do stuff on something that gives you a hard time to make music and sync, which loads from a slow media and basically can either load or show effects. So I am very happy that we made it. Thanks Mad & Degauss!

Because of the „is it C16 or not“: There was no „Plus4"-category in Partymeister, so we chose the nearest – basically because it works on an extended C16 (though we developed and tested on a Plus4). This was also stated in the prod-comment.

This is great not because it has great graphics or cool music or fantastic flow (not that anyone can seriously complain about any of these). This is great not because of the sheer amount of work on display here. For me, this is great because of the amount of invention regarding effects and transitions and just various ways of moving things across the screen. For me, as an oldschool coder, this was the most inspiring demo last year. I watched it several times and, every time, found new things I did not notice before. Thank you for this.

P.S. Sorry, I stole your Youtube joke. I could not actually remember where it came from, but now I do.